White House Plans To Smear Former AG Who Defied Trump’s Bigotry

President Donald Trump fired Sally Yates after she alerted the administration about Michael Flynn’s alleged contacts with Russia.

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and his discriminatory Muslim ban, alerted the administration about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s alleged contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and the potential dangers associated.

Yates was later fired.

“The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said,” The Washington Post reported.

A few days later Yates was fired from her position — not because she warned White House about Flynn, but because she refused to support the xenophobic travel ban.

Trump administration said in a statement that she had “betrayed the Department of Justice."

The top Justice Department official in the Obama administration said she couldn’t defend the ban because it was not "consistent with this institution's solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right."